The 2023/24 The Championship Season came to a close on Saturday 4th May 2024, with Leicester City securing the title on 29th April and Ipswich Town confirming their promotion as runners up on the final day of the season, making it back to back promotions for The Tractor Boys. Leeds United, Southampton, West Bromwich Albion and Norwich City will compete in the Playoffs for the final promotion place.
I wanted to take a look at the kits worn during the league stage of the season (not including Play Offs).
Kit Stats
- 1104 Kits worn (552 Games)
- 86 Different Kit variations used by the 24 teams.
- Home Kits – 38% of Kit variations used
- 33 Home Kits worn in total (Including 1 Kit from 24/25 Season)
- 7 Home Kit variations worn
- Away Kits – 32% of variations used
- 27 Away Kits worn in total
- 3 Away Kit variations worn
- 3rd Kits – 27% of variations worn
- 23 3rd Kits worn in total
- No 3rd Kit variations worn
- Special Kits – 3% of variations worn
- 3 Special Kits worn in total
Overview of Kits Worn
Kit Log – Match 1 to Match 15
Kit Log – Match 16 to Match 30
Kit Log – Match 31 to Match 46
Kit Variations
Looking in more detail at the kit variations worn by the Championship Teams
- Queen’s Park Rangers in 6 Kit Variations: Home x5 (Including 24/25 Home Kit), Away
- 2 Teams wore 5 Kit Variations
- Plymouth Argyle: Home x2, Away x2, 3rd
- Swansea City: Home x2, Away, 3rd, Special Kit
- 8 Teams wore 4 Kit Variations
- Birmingham City: Home x2, Away, 3rd
- Bristol City: Home, Away, 3rd, Special Kit
- Leeds United: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- Preston North End: Home, Away, 3rd, Special Kit
- Southampton: Home, Away x2, 3rd
- Stoke City: Home x2, Away, 3rd
- Sunderland: Home x2, Away, 3rd
- West Bromwich Albion: Home x2, Away, 3rd
- 13 Teams wore 3 Kit Variations (Home, Away, 3rd Kits)
- Most Variations of Home Kit – 4 Kits
- QPR: Hoops with white shorts & socks – Blue shorts & socks – White shorts / blue socks – Blue Shorts / White socks
- Most Variations of Away Kit – 2 Kits
- Leeds United: All Blue – Blue / Blue / Aqua Blue
- Plymouth Argyle: All White – White / White / Green
- Southampton: White / Turquoise / White – White / Turquoise shorts & socks
- Most Variations of 3rd Kit – 1 Kits
- No Team in a 3rd Kit Variation
- 13 Teams only used Home, Away kits and 3rd Kits with no variations
- 1 Teams in just Home and Away Kits, with variations used
- Most worn Home Kit – 41, Norwich City
- Most worn Away Kit – 18, Hull City
- Most worn 3rd Kit – 14, Preston North End
Something new that I have created for this season is an overview of when each of the new kits were first worn, for example… Hull City wore their 3rd Kit in their first game, Home Kit in their 2nd game and Away Kit in their 3rd game..!
Match 1 to Match 23
Match 24 to Match 46
Kit Grid
Below is a graphic of what kits where worn against what teams, its one that I share on a weekly basis on my Twitter Account – @Kit_Geek
Kit Highlights and Summary
In 2023/24 Championship season teams wore 85 Kits, this was a decrease in the number kits compared to last season where 99 Kits were worn, this is the joint with League One with the fewest number of Kit Variations seen this season. Ironically the only team with no 3rd Kit, just Home and Away had the most variations used.
The single most worn Kit in the League was Norwich City, who wore their Home Kit in 41 of the 46 League games.
Despite being the only club in the Championship with no 3rd Kit, Queen’s Park Rangers used the most kit looks in the league this season, which included 5 different Home Kit Looks. This does include their 2024/24 Home Kit which they debuted in their final Home game of the season, but they did use their 23/24 Home Kit in four different variations across 32 games, using all possible combinations of blue / white shorts and socks.
A theme seen within The Championship was the use of Change Kit / Alternative Socks to create new looks, QPR as seen above but also Birmingham City (Away Socks), Plymouth Argyle (Away), Stoke City (Alternative Red Socks), Swansea City (3rd) and West Brom Albion (3rd).
There were only three Away variations worn by Championship clubs, with Leeds United, Plymouth Argyle and Southampton all doning alternative socks (Plymouth using Home Socks) during the season. Southampton and Plymouth also using alternative socks in both fixtures between the clubs.
I want to call out Hull City Kits this season, for me they have delivered the perfect three kit looks for them this season and probably my favourite set of Kits across the English Leagues, they used their Home Kit 26 times, Away Kit 18 times including wearing it once at Home in their final Home game of the season, their 3rd was worn just twice, shame!
There were three “Special Kits” on show in the 2023/24 Season…
Bristol City in a 1974 Heritage Kit
Preston North End in a Sir Tom Finney Special Kit
Swansea City in 30th Anniversary Kit of their first appearence at Wembley in Autoglass Trophy
There we have it, The Championship’s End of Season Kit report for 2023/24, please let me know your favourite kit highlights from this division on the comments below or over at – @Kit_Geek
You can find other End of Season Reports below when they are published…!
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